Shake the living, wake the dead

[everythingafter]

This appears on a car decal outside of my office window. Has anyone seen similar ones? A fellow co-worker asked me what it meant. I said that it's a Jesus thing, an exhortation to reach the lost in Christ, since unbelievers are dead in Christ and dead to rights and life and everything else, apparently. That's the second Christian that has asked me ... me ... what it means. That's just funny. Of course, I'm not 100 percent certain that's what it means, but around these parts where there's a church on every block, there isn't much guesswork involved.

[downbeatplumb]

Not much of an advertising campaign if no one knows what it means.

[Minimalist]

Perhaps its an ad for rap music?

[everythingafter]

Perhaps its an ad for rap music?

That would be much cooler. If had some kind of symbolic secular meaning, it might make a good line in poetry.

[KichigaiNeko]

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[tackattack]

It probably has more to do with Zombies like KN posted, than Christianity. Most Christians have used the phrase shake the living, but only in polemics, not in an apologetics or evangalistic sense. I've not known or ever used the wake the dead. The majority of Christianity I've experienced believes that dead is dead. You wouldn't find biblical basis with the regard to the dead except for talking to the dead and ressurection. I don't think it's Christian based, IMO. Perhaps you as an atheist see it in that sense, because of your selective observation?

[Strongbad]

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This appears on a car decal outside of my office window. Has anyone seen similar ones? A fellow co-worker asked me what it meant. I said that it's a Jesus thing, an exhortation to reach the lost in Christ, since unbelievers are dead in Christ and dead to rights and life and everything else, apparently. That's the second Christian that has asked me ... me ... what it means. That's just funny. Of course, I'm not 100 percent certain that's what it means, but around these parts where there's a church on every block, there isn't much guesswork involved.

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Perhaps it is a reference to Matthew 27:51-53

51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

This is the accurate and well-documented account of exactly what happened immediately after Jesus died on the cross.

[Faith No More]

Perhaps its an ad for rap music?

Acutally, it sounds like an ad for viagra.

[everythingafter]

It probably has more to do with Zombies like KN posted, than Christianity. Most Christians have used the phrase shake the living, but only in polemics, not in an apologetics or evangalistic sense. I've not known or ever used the wake the dead. The majority of Christianity I've experienced believes that dead is dead. You wouldn't find biblical basis with the regard to the dead except for talking to the dead and ressurection. I don't think it's Christian based, IMO. Perhaps you as an atheist see it in that sense, because of your selective observation?

Two things: One, this is Northeast Georgia. Two, I think the wake the dead part is about waking the dead in Christ since unbelievers are supposedly spiritually dead. I also thought I saw some kind of religious picture beside it. I'll try to get another gander at it soon. The likelihood that it's about zombies in Georgia ... slim to nill, imo. lol

[tackattack]

lol yeah .. possibly, I don't know .. see if you can find it on a bumper sticker site and see how they categorized it, or maybe a religous bumper sticker site.